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# Re: HTTP/1.0 Authentication

- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:35:35 PST
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    > If you want to impliment it yourself, just get a uudecode() builtin
    > function, and uudecode the Authorization string, which is then of the
    > form:

    Server builtins are completely unnecessary for this.  It's perfectly
    possible to use in-DB code to decode the Base64 string into the
    username:password result.  In fact, I wrote exactly such a verb for the
    BioGate web package currently in use by several MOOs.

    It's really depressing when I see everyone always thinking "server
    builtin" for every little extension which could be done just as
    effectively in-DB and be far more portable and flexible..

    -R
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          Alex Stewart - riche@crl.com - Richelieu @ Diversity University MOO
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